While the location is a bit in the outskirts, it i...

While the location is a bit in the outskirts, it is lovely. They are currently undergoing a major renovation/expansion, everything is SO CLEAN!!!!! Normally there would be construction dust and noise, but it has been fantastic here. The food at the hotel restaurant is great. The STAFF- OMG, it has been a long time since I've stayed somewhere where EVERYONE has been so friendly, customer oriented, helpful, mindful, professional, .... you get the picture. I am not a gambler and certainly can't handle the smoke in the Casino, so it made it impossible for me to eat at the other restaurants in the Casino. They say "non smoking section", but you have to still walk through the casino and there are no real barriers between the casino and restaurants. Therefor I smelled like an ashtray after just 5 minutes of walking through to check out the restaurants there; needless to say, I didn't go back to any of them. My room was spacious, clean, and very comfortable. I had lovely views of the surrounding hills and mountains. I was attending a conference. The conference facility was very nice and I loved the access to the outdoor patio and the surrounding walking paths and landscaping. Everything is nicely decorated and designed to be modern, yet it blended nicely with the surrounding area, both inside the hotel and outside. They offer a shuttle to a local Target and Fountain Hills shopping/restaurant center. UBER was about $25 to get to Old Town Scottsdale. Supershuttle and UBER worked well for SKYHarbor Airport.